About Laura
Laura Small is a licensed mental health counselor with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. Laura speaks English and practices from Massachusetts.
Her sessions are warm and interactive. She aims to treat people with respect and without labels. Conversations are tailored to each person's needs and pace.
Over a decade in outpatient settings has exposed her to many concerns.
How Laura works
Laura has supported people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, attachment challenges, and blended family issues. She has also worked with those managing chronic illness, cancer, caregiver stress, and body image struggles. Her background includes work with people on the autism spectrum and with avoidant personality patterns.
She also addresses communication problems, codependency, commitment concerns, and the overlap of multiple health or mental health issues. Laura combines several evidence-based therapeutic techniques into treatment plans. She builds goals collaboratively and adjusts strategies as progress is made.
Practical skills and clear steps are part of sessions, alongside opportunities to talk through feelings and history. Getting started involves a short matching process and scheduling by availability. Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving options for different needs and routines.
What Laura works with
The areas below are the ones Laura selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Laura uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and understanding. One common approach helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practice different responses; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and low self-worth. Another approach emphasizes understanding patterns from past relationships and how they affect current feelings and behavior; this can help with attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and repeated relationship struggles. Choosing which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit into busy days and let people check in between longer sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into different routines and life demands.Start online instead of waiting
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